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• Charlie Op de Beke, Lausanne (S) († 2004)
• Stan Bergs
• Kevin van den Beucken, Maastricht, Gemeente Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland († 2004)
• Kevin van den Beucken, Maastricht († 2004)
• Heleen Reumers

• Cécile de Maupéou (82), La Celle-Saint-Cloud, 78126, France
• Adolf Johannes van Waterschoot (79), Hulst (Kloosterzande)
• Cornelis Hermanus Greeff (54), Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Mollema (85), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia Adriana van de Hout (91), Tilburg
• Aly Kuperus (78)
• Edrey Sue Williams (82), Van Vleck, Matagorda, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Antonia Wilhelmina Beyer (93)
• Bernardina Hieronima Maria (Benny) van Hoof (79), Weert, Limburg, Netherlands
• Antonia Klep (77), Etten-Leur

• 1986 » Emily VanCamp, Canadian actress
• 1986 » Jonathan Orozco, Mexican footballer
• 1987 » Kieron Pollard, Trinidadian cricketer
• 1988 » Marcelo, Brazilian footballer
• 1989 » Eleftheria Eleftheriou, Greek Cypriot singer, musician, and actress
• 1990 » Florent Amodio, French figure skater
• 1992 » Volha Khudzenka, Belarusian kayaker
• 1995 » Irina Khromacheva, Russian tennis player
• 1995 » Luke Benward, American actor and singer
• 1997 » Morgan Lake, English athlete

• 2000 » Adam Petty, American race car driver (b. 1980)
• 2001 » Alexei Tupolev, Russian engineer, designed the Tupolev Tu-144 (b. 1925)
• 2001 » Perry Como, American singer and television host (b. 1912)
• 2003 » Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French-American diplomat (b. 1933)
• 2005 » Ömer Kavur, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1944)
• 2005 » Martin Lings, English author and scholar (b. 1909)
• 2005 » Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress (b. 1937)
• 2006 » Hussein Maziq, Libyan politician, Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1918)
• 2008 » Irena Sendler, Polish nurse and humanitarian (b. 1910)
• 2008 » Robert Rauschenberg, American painter and illustrator (b. 1925)

1. Samuel
2. Thomas
3. Sam
4. Lucas
5. Sem
6. Jelle
7. Daan
8. Lars
9. Niels
10. Claus-casimir
11. Tim
12. Thijs
13. Noah
14. Max
15. Johannes
16. Jan

1. Amber
2. Sanne
3. Anna
4. Emma
5. Isa
6. Lotte
7. Anne
8. Iris
9. Lisa
10. Chiara
11. Femke
12. Ameila
13. Julia
14. Noa
15. Charlotte
16. Anouk

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
• January 8 » The RMSQueen Mary 2, then the largest ocean liner ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
• March 11 » Madrid train bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain, kill 192 people.
• April 21 » Five suicide car bombers target police stations in and around Basra, killing 74 people and wounding 160.
• November 6 » An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing seven and injuring 150.
• December 26 » Orange Revolution: The final run-off election in Ukraine is held under heavy international scrutiny.
• December 31 » The official opening of Taipei 101, the tallest skyscraper at that time in the world, standing at a height of 509 metres (1,670ft).

The temperature on May 12, 2004 was between 8.9 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (19%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.